Algae of India, Volume 3: A Checklist of Indian Marine Algae: Excluding Diatoms and Dinoflagellates

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From the preface: Biodiversity and its conservation strategies are the apex concern of scientists in recent decades. Thus, Botanical Survey of India has initiated to prepare the inventory of Indian algae at national level. Volumes 1 and 2 in this series has been published in 2012. The present book “Algae of India: a checklist, volume-3, deals with 212 taxa belonging to 46 genera, 19 families of Chlorophyta, 6 taxa belonging to 1 genus, 1 family of Xanthophyta, 211 taxa belonging to 50 genera, 13 families of Phaeophyta, 442 taxa belonging to 138 genera, 33 families of Rhodophyta and 148 taxa belonging to 48 genera, 12 families of cyanophyta. The primary purpose of this endeavor is to facilitate the taxonomy, diversity and identification of the various species of Indian marine algae, recorded from within the present territorial limits of the country.

Members of dinoflagellates and diatoms are not included in this book as being the major components of marine algal flora comprising of more than 2000 taxa approximately. A separate treatment will be followed to prepare a checklist of diatoms (Bacillariophyta) and dinoflagellates (Dinophyta).

India has a coastline of ca 7500 km, richin biological diversity. The floral resources of such habitats principally includes mostly macro-algae (also called as seaweeds) and other planktonic algae. The seaweeds are now-a-days a subject of interest for natural scientist as well as industrialists, for their utilities in agriculture, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. The industrially important gelatinizing agent, agar-agar is extracted from some seaweeds commonly found in Indian coasts. The extracts from these plants are also useful as biofertilizers and in isolation of several bioactive compounds. These plants are directly consumed by humans in countries like Japan, China, Thailand, Korea and UK. This book will be a source of all these economically important phyco-resources of India.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Chlorophyta. 2. Xanthophyta. 3. Phaeophyta. 4. Rhodophyta. 5. Cyanophyta. Bibliography. Index to botanical names.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.S.N. Rao

P.S.N. Rao, Ph.D., Master of Town Planning (SPA), B.E. (Civil), F.I.T.P., F.I.V., A.I.I.A., Cert. In Urban Management (Canada) is a well known housing, urban development and municipal sector specialist based in new Delhi, India. He is a recipient of the SPA Gold Medal, the Indian Building Congress Medal and the AICTE Young Teachers’ Award of the Government of India. He has 18 years of experience during which he has published over one hundred papers, supervised over 70 post graduate theses on various aspects of urban development and conducted over 30 research and consultancy assignment. Presently, he is a Professor of Urban Management at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi where he is involved in capacity building for ISA and other functionaries of the central, state and local governments. He is also the Joint Editor of Nagarlok, an urban affairs quarterly of the IIPA.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.K. Gupta

Shri R.K. Gupta, is a disciple of one of the greatest saints of the Naqshbandi Order Thakur Ram Singh Ji, an officer in the Police Department of the erstwhile Jaipur State, who earned his livelihood by the sweat of his brow and reared his family. During his lifetime itself he had become a legendary figures because of his honesty and sincerity, and devotion to his Master Mahatma Ram Chandra ji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, UP. Born in 1950, the author had the fortune to visit his Master at the young age of 15 years, when his father, Dr. Chandra Gupta, took him to the pious feet of Thakur Ram Singh Ji. A man of few words, Thakur Ram singh ji left a deep impression and sowed the seed of Love in the heart of the author, in the first sight itself. The author spend his formative years from 1966 to 1970 under the gracious auspices of Thakur Ram Singh Ji and thereafter under Dr. Chandra Gupta, his father, who also was a great Sufi Master.

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Title
Algae of India, Volume 3: A Checklist of Indian Marine Algae: Excluding Diatoms and Dinoflagellates
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
8181770676
Length
xviii+96p., 11 Colour Plates
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